Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 146
In vain do the fugitives attempt to escape.
Who acts: vain, fugitives · What happens: do, attempt, escape
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vain, fugitives), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 vain | case |
| 2 | vain | vain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fugitives | det |
| 5 | fugitives | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 attempt | nsubj |
| 6 | attempt | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 escape | mark |
| 8 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 attempt | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | vain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | attempt | present | the fugitives | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | the fugitives not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/146/